The Orlando Magic will sign rookie center Dewayne Dedmon for the remainder of this season after his second 10-day contract expired at 11:59 Sunday night.
Dedmon gives the Magic another big man — a spot on the roster that thinned out when the...

Orlando Magic fans showered Dwight Howard with boos when Amway Center's public-address announcer introduced each Houston Rockets starter. In the first quarter, the fans continued to boo whenever Howard caught the ball.
But the jeers' intensity...

The Orlando Magic should be at full strength when they face the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night.
Guards Jameer Nelson and Victor Oladipo participated in practice Friday and joined their Magic teammates when they left Central Florida to begin a two-...

WASHINGTON — Last June, the Washington Wizards asked Victor Oladipo to work out for them at their practice facility at Verizon Center. The Wizards held the third overall pick in the draft.
But Oladipo declined.
Instead, his camp informed Wizards...

WASHINGTON — Dewayne Dedmon and Adonis Thomas are experiencing the NBA equivalent of a whirlwind right now.
This morning, the Orlando Magic formally signed them to 10-day contracts.
A short while later, Dedmon and Thomas joined their new team at a shootaround at Verizon Center to prepare for tonight’s game against the Washington Wizards.
“You’ve just got to adjust quick and just make it happen as fast as you can,” Dedmon said.
Dedmon is a 7-foot-tall rookie center who...

To call Dewayne Dedmon a late bloomer in basketball would be a massive understatement.
His mom is a Jehovah's Witness, and for religious reasons, she strongly objected to him playing organized sports. As a high-school senior, he joined his school's basketball team, but even though he was 6-feet-8 at the time, he was so unskilled that he barely ever played in games.
"When I turned 18 years old, that's when I was of age to make a decision for myself," Dedmon explained. "That's when I was like, 'I'm...

The Orlando Magic will re-sign center Dewayne Dedmon and swingman Adonis Thomas to second 10-day contracts, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.
Dedmon and Thomas were signed to their first 10-day contracts on Feb. 25, and those contracts will expire at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
A team may sign individual players to two 10-day contracts during a single season.
After the end of a second 10-day contract, the team has the choice of signing the player for the remainder of the season or letting the player return...

In an effort to preserve salary-cap space during the summers of 2015 and 2016, Orlando Magic executives have decided not to use a provision in the collective-bargaining agreement that would allow them to stretch out the cap hit of the money owed to Glen Davis following his buyout.
Although it's unclear how much the Magic will pay Davis in the buyout, the CBA mandates that the cash owed must be paid over the course of twice the number of remaining contract years plus one year. So that means the Magic...